Lead Product Designer

As a Lead Designer at Energage, you'll own significant product areas and drive them from research through launch as we mature our design practice and elevate design's influence across the organization. You'll be a key member building our new unified experience—conducting user research, designing flows and interactions, and establishing patterns that work across diverse user needs—while helping position design as a strategic driver of business value and exceptional user experiences.

Own Product Areas & Execute

• Own design for significant product areas within our new unified experience, from research through execution
• Design comprehensive user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes
• Handle complex, ambiguous projects with minimal oversight, demonstrating design's strategic value through high-quality work
• Balance hands-on design work with leadership and mentoring, with the ratio evolving based on team needs

Conduct Research & Discovery

• Plan and conduct generative and evaluative research using qualitative and quantitative methods
• Pair the right research methods with objectives to uncover insights and validate decisions
• Synthesize findings into actionable design recommendations that drive product strategy
• Collaborate with the Principal Designer to ensure research ladders up to holistic experience goals

Deliver High-Quality Craft

• Produce work demonstrating exceptional attention to detail that serves as a model for the team
• Design with systems thinking—creating patterns and components others can utilize across the product
• Consider all constraints including accessibility, responsive design, dark mode, localization, and edge cases
• Own the design system for your focus area, ensuring consistency and championing adoption

Mentor & Lead

• Mentor Senior and mid-level designers through coaching, feedback, and skill shares
• Guide teammates in assessing priorities to increase velocity, quality, and impact
• Model excellent design through your work and collaborative approach
• Contribute to establishing team processes that mature our practice

Collaborate & Communicate

• Present work with polish and confidence to stakeholders at all levels
• Build rapport with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, and business
• Advocate for user needs and design quality using data and storytelling
• Help establish design as a valued strategic partner through your collaborative approach

• 5-10 years of product design experience with increasing responsibility for complex projects and team leadership
• Strong generalist skills owning the full design process from research through high-fidelity design
• Research proficiency planning, conducting, and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research
• Systems thinking creating scalable design systems, components, and patterns
• Proven track record shipping high-quality products with measurable impact
• Collaboration skills working effectively with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders
• Mentorship experience helping other designers grow
• Communication skills presenting work confidently and influencing decisions with data
• Portfolio showcasing end-to-end design process, research skills, and high-quality craft
• Expertise in industry-standard design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Confluence, Notion, Google Drive
• Inclusive design expertise with understanding of WCAG standards and designing for diverse abilities, contexts, and user needs
• Agile/Scrum experience working in iterative, cross-functional product teams
• Complex B2B product experience with multi-user, multi-role enterprise workflows

• Experience contributing to maturing design practices at growing organizations
• Background in B2B SaaS, HR tech, or employee experience products
• Experience with platform consolidation, design system unification, or multi-product ecosystems
• Advanced inclusive design knowledge beyond WCAG basics
• Experience with survey design, data visualization, or analytics platforms
• Comfort learning new domains quickly and collaborating with domain experts

Compensation and Benefits
This position has a salary range of that varies based on relevant experience. Please review the compensation tiers below. This role is also bonus eligible.

5-6 years of experience: $120,000 – $125,000

6–8 years of experience: $125,500 – $130,000

8-10+ years of experience: $130,500 – $135,000

In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes:

• PTO policy includes company holidays, sick time, vacation time, and floating holidays
• Remote
• Company pays a portion of individual health care premium
• Option to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k) 
• Training and education
• Professional development; all employees have access to a third party professional coach
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Opportunity to work for a purpose-driven organization using business as a force for good (https://www.bcorporation.net/)

Join Energage as we mature our design practice and establish design as a strategic driver of business success and user experience excellence. We're building a unified experience that brings together employee engagement and talent management—strategic work that will enable employees, managers, and HR professionals to build great workplace cultures.

You'll work alongside the Director of Design, Principal Designer, and the broader design team as we tackle these challenges together. The team brings deep domain expertise, and you'll play a key role in translating that knowledge into a cohesive, exceptional user experience.

You'll have significant autonomy and clear impact, with the opportunity to shape both product and how design operates within the organization. If you're energized by the challenge of building practice, conducting meaningful research, mentoring others, and delivering exceptional craft—not just maintaining what exists—this role offers that combination of autonomy, impact, and strategic influence.

Energage is a remote workplace with employees in various US locations. While our employees enjoy the flexibility of daily remote work, they are also given the occasional opportunity for in person interaction. This includes in our office in Exton Pa, or in a coworking space/out in their local area. This role is available for remote work in the following states: 

• Arizona
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Maryland
• Michigan
• North Carolina
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• New York STATE (NYC residents excluded)
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Wisconsin

If you reside outside of the above locations, you will not be considered for this role.

About Energage: 

Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 19 years of culture research and the results from 23 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations, Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com. 

Energage is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Energage encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.